Systems of law: Islamic law

In 1910, al-Mahdi al-Wazzani, a prominent Moroccan Islamic scholar completed his massive compilation of Maliki fatwas.

Justice is considered the basic norm of human coexistence.

The relationship between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Western World is fraught with challenges and tensions.

This book deals with the sources of Islamic jurisprudence and their importance in deducing the religious rulings.

Comparative law of religions has developed in recent years as a new discipline at the intersection of legal and religious science, of theology and anthropology.

Dupret explores how the concept of positive law operated in the Muslim world.

Food trucks announcing "e;halal"e; proliferate in many urban areas but how many non-Muslims know what this means, other than cheap lunch?

Constituting Religion examines how constitutional provisions for both Islam and liberal rights catalyze conflicts over religion in Malaysia and feed a ''rights-versus-rites'' binary.

In this pioneering work Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights, drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary resources.

Offers a new way of understanding classical Islamic theories holding that divine revelation is necessary for the knowledge of norms.

This book offers unique insights into Islamic law, considering its theoretical perspectives alongside its practical application in daily Muslim life.

The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India.

Gender, family law in the Middle East and North Africa indicating change and stasis in context of the Arab spring.

During the 20th century many countries embarked on a process of constitutional secularization by which the role of religion gradually became limited.

An accessible overview of the religious and social thought of the world''s largest Muslim majority nation.

This collection addresses many of the issues arising from the management of religious and cultural diversity in a multicultural society and refers to the complex relationship between the right to religious freedom and security.

How Islam treats women is one of the most hotly contested questions of our times.

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state.

The idea of maslaha has a rich history in classical legal thought and literature.

In the recent past, Islamic finance has made an impressive case on the banking scene by becoming an alternative to the popular conventional financial systems, spurring a lively academic debate on how the Islamic finance industry can expand its services to cover the poor.

This is a new examination of how Shari'a law affects public policy both theoretically and in practice, across a wide range of public policy areas, including for example human rights and family law.

This collection addresses many of the issues arising from the management of religious and cultural diversity in a multicultural society and refers to the complex relationship between the right to religious freedom and security.

In this book Kerry O'Halloran analyses a subject of international interest - religion - and examines related contemporary issues from a human rights perspective.

Why are honour killings and honour-related violence (HRV) so important to understand?

Concluding a textually long but spiritually endless journey toward insan al-kamil--the perfect human--this fourth volume approaches Sufism through the middle way, an approach that revives the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.

The essays brought together in Islam, Law and Identity are the product of a series of interdisciplinary workshops that brought together scholars from a plethora of countries.

This book draws on the work of Rawls to explore the interaction between faith, law and the right to religious freedom in post-Soeharto Indonesia, the world's largest democracy after India and the United States.

Islamic State's Online Activity and Responses provides a unique examination of Islamic State's online activity at the peak of its "e;golden age"e; between 2014 and 2017 and evaluates some of the principal responses to this phenomenon.

There is a long and rich history of opinion centred on female prayer leadership in Islam that has occupied the minds of theologians and jurists alike.

How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authorityThe medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority.

What are the views, principles and regulations of the Islamic tradition concerning refugee status?

This book focuses on Islamic family law as interpreted and applied by judges in Europe, Australia and North America.

In this book, a judge at the Shari''a Court of Jerusalem explains the religious law of Muslim minorities.

While there are many books on Islamic family law, the literature on its enforcement is scarce.

Transformations of Tradition probes how the encounter with colonial modernity conditioned Islamic jurists' conceptualizations of the shari'a.

Should an employee be allowed to wear a religious symbol at work?

This book critically examines different forms of petroleum contracts, the historical perspective of the oil and gas industry and the political economy of the petroleum development in Iran.

A very accessible and concise guide to Islamic finance Contracts and Deals in Islamic Finance provides a clear breakdown of Islamic financial contracts and deal structures for beginners.

Legal pluralism has often been associated with post-colonial legal developments especially where common law survived alongside tribal and customary laws.

This book is the first ethnographic study of Muslim minorities'' practice of Islamic law in contemporary China.

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam.

Constitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuity examines the question of whether something similar to an "e;Islamic constitutionalism"e; has emerged out of the political and constitutional upheaval witnessed in many parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Southern Asia.

Today Islam is often associated with violence, more so than other world religions.